“Druidic magic has always confused me. I suppose I don’t understand how something like a beehive is considered natural where something like a house is not.” - Ida Holly
The wedding celebration was in full swing. Music, Food, two families becoming one. The Druidic covens and the royal houses uniting and settling the years-long conflict between nature and civilization was cause for celebration of itself.
But before the union can be considered official...
2022-07-16 05:01:01 +0000 UTC
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“Nothing in this world is predictable but taxes and tides.” - Ida Holly
“It’s not abnormal for the Tides to flood the canals. But with the coming festival, the kingdom has put forth efforts to slow the flooding as the city fills with merchants. The canals are packed with more gondolas than ever when something shook below the waves.
An island, on the back of a massive creature, rose from below the tides outside of town and displaced an inordi...
2022-07-09 05:00:18 +0000 UTC
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It's my birthday month! Below you'll find options for one of this month's maps included are suggestions from our 5$ tier patrons, If you want to add similar suggestions to the poll each month I take my favorites from the map suggestion channel on discord! Consider joining the 5$ tier and seeing one of your ideas get created!
Ida's Guide Update!
For July I want to share with you a little bit about a town called Tankren. One of the locations you'll visit in Ida's Guide...
2022-07-05 16:46:50 +0000 UTC
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“The Gates to the hells open first within us, then around us” - Ida Holly
"We have grown so used to the security of our towers, castles, and stone walls. Humans flocked to their cities and watched waves of soldiers smash against these shields. But the arch-devils claim power over the souls corrupted by evil, living and dead alike. And evil exists within, no stone wall can be built around the soul.
The trouble is they can only shape an evil soul to t...
2022-06-30 05:01:01 +0000 UTC
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“Just a little snack, guys!” - Ida Holly
“The market attracts people from all over the kingdom, From well outside the city's walls, to come and view its lights and splendors and spend their precious coin. Listen, they came to lose the coin I don't think they’d much mind HOW they go about losing it. Call it a charitable donation to the poor and impoverished peoples of the city.
Just remember the plan. Snatch it and run down the alley, If the guard...
2022-06-25 05:01:00 +0000 UTC
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“The effects of a legendary beast taking a lair has on the land is not well understood. Perhaps it is a residual bleed from the potent magic within them? All we have is conjecture for now.’ - Ida Holly, On the Primal Beast
“It’s said the creature came from long ago, slumbering in the molten rock below the geysers. And one day the thunder of war roused it, with thousands of years of hunger it ate an entire army in one go before slinking off into that tu...
2022-06-18 05:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“Across this infinite Elseworlds. It seems a tragic constant. Men like to kill eachother and make it- very dramatic. - Ida Holly
“Reckon there ain't no way he were gonna survive iffin' the law came down on’m. Seems to me this sort of challenge really puts the favor in the corner of the outlaw. But who am I to say, Iffn' the sharif wants to end the bandit raids in one quick draw with their leader spose he might be onto something.
Ways I see it th...
2022-06-11 05:00:03 +0000 UTC
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It's a new month, so a new map poll is up! You may have noticed you've been added to the community discord! that's where you guys will be able to communicate with me directly and add new options to the map poll going forward! I'll be using the discord to post when I've dropped a new Lore Reimagined, Glassway update, Ida's Guide stuff, and of course new maps! I'm excited, and admittedly a bit nervous to open up such a direct line to everyone, please be gentle with me. If you're not inter...
2022-06-03 15:05:34 +0000 UTC
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“He who fight and runs away, lives to activate the force wall another day” - Ida Holly
“No alarms, no warnings. A ship full of siege weapons and a horrible electrified monstrosity of an airship attack all at once. The entire guard cut down and the port was set ablaze.
The only choice is to fall back, regroup, and try and evacuate as many civilians as possible through the sky dock. But the wards won’t hold and the lightning frigate turns its sights on the wizard’s tower....
2022-05-28 05:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“So we all agree- next time we pull coin for a wagon that can float?” - Ida Holly
"Crown’s Canyon bridge was the only crossing along the river border between the two kingdoms large enough to march trade across- or soldiers. Its collapse would mean passing far far north to the caverns through the mountain or worse the southern lake said to house a horrible monster in its depths.
It’s up to you by orders of the king to protect the bridge from a...
2022-05-21 05:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Don’t just stand there! Try and brace it with something! - Ida Holly
The pressure plate clicked, and the whole party held their breath. Nothing seemed to happen after passing through the dungeon filled with falling rocks, Poison darts, and Swinging logs. All manor of Traps, you, at last, arrived in the lich’s tomb, and yet. Not a trap to be seen.
A full second went by before anyone allowed themselves to think maybe it was safe, Then CRASH! The doors ...
2022-05-14 05:01:02 +0000 UTC
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I’ll never understand the desire of monarchs to build castles at the tops of mountains. Sure they are safe, but the cold is miserable. - Ida Holly
The climb along the icy mountain cliffs, the snowbanks hiding perilous cavern shafts, and the unyielding wind that leaves ice crystals stinging your skin are all left behind you as you breach the mountain’s top. There it stands- Iverholm keep. A towering forgotten castle left abandoned for nearly a century, its ...
2022-05-07 05:01:01 +0000 UTC
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It's may! Which means I'm very nearly at one year on Patreon! I'm super excited to announce as of two weeks ago I'm officially full-time! It's crazy that I was able to do this in such a short amount of time, I'm both extremely lucky and privileged in my position to be able to even attempt something like this full time!
As a full-time map maker, I will be opening up commissions in a very limited...
2022-05-04 05:38:27 +0000 UTC
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With timeless lives and boundless intellect I am forced to wonder if our most brilliant minds were not consumed, would we too be this advanced? - Ida Holly, on elder brains.
“The hive was unlike others the historians wrote about, few if any Psyoniccally controlled minions. Its walls were reinforced like armor. Pipes and gaskets all around hissed and the air was thick with chemical smells.
When we reached Xzvel’s Brine pool it didn’t even seem startl...
2022-04-30 05:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The Druid circles are isolated far from the cities. But don’t get it wrong. Out in the woods, they are protecting us all from things we will never even encounter. - Ida Holly
“It grows every day.” the old fishermen says, lugging cages of sickly looking river-life up onto the dock where you stand. “Slow enough that no one seems to pay it much mind. But we notice. Those of us out there along the rivers. Something is making this whole forest sick. Half my ...
2022-04-26 05:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“You’ll always remember the day, That uhhh… that.. Hang on, it’ll come to me.” - Ida Holly
Your boots barely reach the trap door. The man with the black sack on his head checks the noose. And all through your mind hundreds of opportunities to right the wrongs you’d done in the eyes of the merchant lords play on repeat.
This is the end. The drummers ring out their drums. Wait… that's- not drums. The eyes of the crowd cast out to sea. A silhou...
2022-04-23 05:01:00 +0000 UTC
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I’m a cartographer and a historian. I seek to best understand the world around me. But not all things should be written down. Some things are best forgotten. - Ida Holly
An exposition has traveled deep into the icy glacier cavern, some relics were found from what may have been a ship from long ago- but they haven’t returned in days. Expecting the worst, crossing the ice on dog sleds, descends into the tunnel, repelled by rope and lit by the teal-colored lig...
2022-04-09 05:00:02 +0000 UTC
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This month I'm doing boss fights only. Adversary April? April Antagonists? I'll think up a name eventually. Anyway this month all the maps I release will be boss battle themed! Each will include PNGs for the boss and blank backgrounds in addition to the normal boss-on-map version for DMs who want very fine levels of control!
Balatro's Top secret coolkids club. Discord!
I've decided to make a discord! Sometime this month you can expect to join via Patreon's integr...
2022-04-04 03:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“The city is completely locked down. There is no way in or out. I mean other than their supply trains but the airships guide them in from the farms… why are you looking at me like that?” - Ida Holly
riding atop a wartime cargo train, the skies turn dark, and a storm rolls in. The rain hits you like bullets due to the speed the train is traveling towards The Factory. Cardillo's forces close in boarding the train from small skiffs to stop you, monsters and ...
2022-03-31 05:01:01 +0000 UTC
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“The difficult thing about creating maps is shifting borders. This time, quite literally.” - Ida Holly
The dunes they say burry countless secrets. Treasure hunters are always making their way out there to see if they can strike it rich locating some of the ancient cities swallowed by the sand. You’re fools to go out there, Even if such a thing exists what could you hope to bring back? More likely you’ll just be adding more bones to the tomb.
How ...
2022-03-19 05:01:00 +0000 UTC
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“Ghosts doesn't narrow it down. Shades, Haunts, Banshee, Hells even some LICHS are ghosts. I’m going to need you to be a lot more specific.” - Ida Holy
The Riverbend estate has been abandoned for decades, It’s previous lord was executed for toying with “Dark Magic”. And no one has so much as ventured there to trim the hedges. But when the lights in the tower started the locals became nervous. Shades began haunting all along the river and the woods a...
2022-03-12 06:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone! The newest map poll is up!
In the very near future, I will be opening a private discord server for patrons to make offering suggestions for future polls easier and more available to you all!
Also, this month I wanted to share a bit about the book, Ida's Guide to Worlds Beyond Our Own, with all of you! I'm hard at work writing and designing and shopping around for a good print house that can help me bring it all to life (Which has proven more difficult t...
2022-03-04 22:52:12 +0000 UTC
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“What unspeakable doom lurks at the edges of our vision. Out where nothing can be known, and nothing can be understood. More terrifying than the danger is the complete lack of reason.” - Ida Holly
You arrive at the Chapple. A two-floored structure with an indoor garden at the center of which a large stone henge sits tended to by many quiet druids. It is not the terror you expected. When you were sent here to “Slay the aberrations”. For a moment you fee...
2022-02-26 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“We put a lot of faith in magic, You expect things to always go right- but when you stop to consider just how many monsters are created by magical accidents… well it just puts things in focus.” - Ida Holly
The King, in gratitude for your heroism in protecting the castle, has allowed you to visit the court Archmage and use the Teleportation circle in her courtyard to expedite your trip back home. But when you arrive instead of the elderly woman you were to...
2022-02-19 06:00:02 +0000 UTC
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“See ya later.” - Ida Holly
They say deep in the swamps there is a cult, well they are a druid circle, but once you’ve become convinced that undeath and necromancy are part of the natural cycle… you officially become a cult. They are secretive enough and don't tend to leave the swamp other than during floods…
Thing is, a druid from a different circle came to town, wanted to make contact with them. Headed out on the fan boat to the fishermen's t...
2022-02-12 06:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“So, do you come to the middle of frozen lakes often?” -Ida Holly
This boat has been just feet below the frozen ice for many years. Its crew vanished along with it, and finding its exact location in the massive lake was not easy. Sledding out to it was equally challenging and risky. But it will all pay off when we chip our way down into that cargo hold, The crown sits in one of its containers just as it did 100 years ago when headed to the queen before the ...
2022-02-05 06:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The Kickstarter for Ida's guide has come to an end, we came in with just under DOUBLE the original goal! I'm blown away by the support and the extra money means I can pay for some really top-tier art and make every copy of the book that goes out just a bitter better made!
The first editions of the book should be in hands by the end of this year, and after that, a Print on demand edition will be made so if you really wanted to get a copy but missed the Kickstarter there is hope on the h...
2022-02-02 08:35:59 +0000 UTC
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“You know, This would be a lot of fun! If it wasn't for the bottomless pit… Bubbling lava… unseen monsters.. Oh and were being chased! But I mean, other than THAT. weeeeeeee!” ~ Ida Holly
The tunnels deep into the mountain have been left unmined for many years. The deep depths have long become home to any manner of monster and foul creature. It's really better left forgotten.
But, of course. There are plenty of magically resonating crystals that...
2022-01-27 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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A were-house? Are we absolutely positive this isn't a miscommunication? - Ida Holly
They say, on a full moon when the stars are dim from the countless lantern lights, deep in the city it stirs. A mimic, Unlike anything else, its hunger more ceaseless and driving. Worse still it never divides, never loses an ounce of mass just growing... and growing...
Its tendrils root into the sewers and latch onto the foundations of other buildings, Its teeth disguised as...
2022-01-17 20:53:34 +0000 UTC
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As of last week, Ida's Guide is Officially fully funded! And today is only 2000 dollars away from its stretch goal!
I'm overwhelmed by the support and confident I'll be able to deliver a book to everyone that is completely
unique and exciting! Thank you as always for your continued patronage!
This week I'll also be visiting Anime Los Angelos! My first ever con as an arti...
2022-01-04 03:07:12 +0000 UTC
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